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Medium ALSA-2023:2179 5 CVEs

Moderate: libguestfs-winsupport security update

Published May 9, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Ecosystem: AlmaLinux

Summary

The libguestfs-winsupport package adds support for Windows guests to libguestfs, a set of tools and libraries allowing users to access and modify virtual machine (VM) disk images.

Security Fix(es):

* ntfs-3g: heap-based buffer overflow in ntfsck (CVE-2021-46790)
* ntfs-3g: crafted NTFS image can cause heap exhaustion in ntfs_get_attribute_value (CVE-2022-30784)
* ntfs-3g: crafted NTFS image can cause a heap-based buffer overflow in ntfs_names_full_collate (CVE-2022-30786)
* ntfs-3g: crafted NTFS image can cause a heap-based buffer overflow in ntfs_mft_rec_alloc (CVE-2022-30788)
* ntfs-3g: crafted NTFS image can cause a heap-based buffer overflow in ntfs_check_log_client_array (CVE-2022-30789)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 libguestfs-winsupport 9.2-1.el9

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-46790
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-30784
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-30786
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-30788
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-30789
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2093314
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2093326
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2093340
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2093348
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2093358
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-2179.html